tidy sum
Example Sentences
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It’s a tidy sum that implies it took Musk less than seven seconds to earn what the average U.S. household makes in a year.
From Barron's ● Dec. 23, 2025
That’s quite a nice tidy sum, but all the reasons you separated from your wife will still be there when you arrive in Colombia.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2025
It's not the first banana-as-art that sold for a tidy sum.
From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2024
The F.D.I.C. insures deposits up to $250,000 — a tidy sum for individuals but just a sliver of the balances that companies can hold.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2023
A thousand dollars isn't much, but it's—a thousand dollars; and when I double it by another thousand, which has never been buried by any ancient ancestress, it makes a tidy sum for a foundling lad.
From Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life by Frank T. (Frank Thayer) Merrill
